Almost 1,000 treated for gas exposure after Mosul sulfur plant set ablaze

Almost 1,000 people have been treated for breathing problems linked to toxic gases from a sulfur plant that Islamic State militants are suspected to have set on fire near the city of Mosul, hospital sources said on Saturday.

No deaths were reported in connection with the incident, said the sources at the hospital in Qayyara, a town south of Mosul. The first cases began arriving on Friday morning, they said.